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Re: How to rewrite this type example ?
« Reply #15 on: May 15, 2021, 11:33:42 pm »
Hi MarkMLl

In the early years when I started working, punched cards was also used.
I have also seen large mainframes with large tape recorders.
Teletype terminals (VT ...)
I had a punched card to register at the factory (time registration)
punched card was also used as a means of payment.
A street organ with a punched card.

Erik

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Re: How to rewrite this type example ?
« Reply #16 on: May 15, 2021, 11:36:22 pm »
Hey Bart,

Bedankt voor het bezorgen van de link
Ik zie U wel op dat forum.

Hi Bart
{Thanks for sending me for the link
I'll see you on that forum.}

Erik

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Re: How to rewrite this type example ?
« Reply #17 on: May 16, 2021, 10:11:37 am »
Teletype terminals (VT ...)

:-) No, not VT but the entirely-mechanical ones... ASR33 and the like.

"Métal hurlant" :-)

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Re: How to rewrite this type example ?
« Reply #18 on: May 16, 2021, 11:37:51 am »
Teletype terminals (VT ...)

:-) No, not VT but the entirely-mechanical ones... ASR33 and the like.

"Métal hurlant" :-)

MarkMLl

Hi!

For the "young blood":

https://www.pdp8online.com/asr33/asr33.shtml

Winni

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Re: How to rewrite this type example ?
« Reply #19 on: May 16, 2021, 11:48:32 am »
:-) I might still have a set of the manuals somewhere. The bottom line is that the only electrical devices were a motor, a single electromagnet for printing, and a rotating commutator on the keyboard. One man could carry one- unlike the Olivetti I owned once which had been carefully "reimagined" to circumvent the patents and which replaced every pressed-metal part with a machined-and-bolted subassy which could easily drift out of alignment... I heard that the maintenance course was 12 weeks.

It's difficult to imagine terminals which predate microprocessors, but "glass teletypes" with varying degrees of sophistication and ingenuity go back to the 1960s.

@Re-searcher: you /really/ don't want to get me going on this stuff :-)

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Re: How to rewrite this type example ?
« Reply #20 on: May 16, 2021, 12:10:33 pm »

Hello re searcher.
I am no spring chicken either.

Remember that pascal string and freebasic string are not the same thing.
You need ansistring, or the switch for ansistring to get a reasonable representation.
Code: Pascal  [Select][+][-]
  1.  
  2.  
  3.  {$H+}            // String is now an alias for AnsiString
  4.  
  5.     type
  6.   ConstMeta = record
  7.     Value: String;
  8.     Startup: String;
  9.   end;
  10.  
  11.   var s:ConstMeta;
  12.  
  13.  
  14. begin
  15. s.Value:='aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa';
  16. s.Value:=s.Value+s.Value;
  17.  s.Value:=s.Value+s.Value;
  18.  s.Value:=s.Value+s.Value;
  19.  s.Value:=s.Value+s.Value;
  20.  s.Value:=s.Value+s.Value;
  21.  
  22. writeln;
  23. writeln(s.Value);
  24.  
  25. readln;
  26. end.

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Re: How to rewrite this type example ?
« Reply #21 on: May 17, 2021, 03:03:04 pm »
@BobDog
Thanks for this information.

@MarkMLl

When I was born at the time, there were no computers and printers (asr33)
This type of printer is not stored in my memory brain only Mechanical desktop typewriters not with electronic like asr33

I have learned to write with a pen with ink from a bottle.
http://www.overdiep.nl/ink/inkhomed.html

Erik

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Re: How to rewrite this type example ?
« Reply #22 on: May 17, 2021, 03:23:48 pm »
This type of printer is not stored in my memory brain only Mechanical desktop typewriters not with electronic like asr33

That contained NO ELECTRONICS.

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I have learned to write with a pen with ink from a bottle.
http://www.overdiep.nl/ink/inkhomed.html

Yes, and when I was at school the desks had inkwells next to each pupil and we used dip pens, none of these fountain pens or Biros.

I lie: we had Biros in primary school, but after that were expected to learn how to do things properly.

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